Michele Bachmann: “When Donald Was Young, Even His Jews Would Say Merry Christmas”

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann interviewed with End Times broadcaster Jan Markell on Saturday and warned America that the election of Hillary Clinton to the president of the United States would mean the destruction of America.

“He gets and understands religious liberty,” Bachmann said. She pointed out the discussion Trump had about the so-called War on Christmas. “He even said, ‘I don’t understand,’ he said, ‘When I was growing up everybody said Merry Christmas. Even my Jews would say Merry Christmas.’”

Markell advised voters of the hazards of a Clinton presidency: “The Titanic is three-fourths under water right now. You get another four years, another eight years of this progressivism, of this infatuation with Islam and caving to all things Islam, of the LGBT community rammed down our throats, rammed down the throats of the churches, and that’s going to intensify a thousand times more with a Hillary Clinton administration.”

Bachmann told conservatives that if they stay home instead of voting for Trump, it will “ensure that we will lose the United States of America; they will ensure it. They will ensure that every godless principle there is comes into this country.”

She feels that God helped Trump succeed in the primary because he may be the only one who can beat Clinton. “When it comes down to it, Trump may have been the only candidate who could actually defeat Hillary. What I kept thinking to, Jan, was the Book of Daniel, and the Book of the Daniel, the essence of the book, was that the most high God lifts up who he will and takes down who he will.”

Democrats, Bachmann said, are “allowing well over a million people from the Third World to flood into our country, bringing in diseases, people who are criminals, rapists, and all the rest.”

When Republicans feel nostalgic for a better time, they inevitably recall the 1950s, without it ever occurring to them that for an equal number of Americans that era does was not a happy time. Since they continue almost 60 years later to be unconcered about the groups with a different set of memories, it is not surprising that they lived through an era in which so many others were treated abomidably — either by them or in their presence — but, do not remember anything negative. In reality, it was a time when women, after contributing to the victory in WW II, assuming all the family responsibilities, and realizing that they had the ability and potential to do anyhing their dreams imagined had been instead pressured back into their a world in which their ambitions were limited to having and rearing children and keeping house for a husband. It was also a world in which the laws gave husbands control over the lives of their wives, even after marriages had ended.. Blacks, who had helped fight recent wars in disproportionate numbers and who had worked hard (as slaves then in the lowest tier of jobs on the employment scale) to make America a powerful and successful country, nevertheless realized that their abilities and opportunities were mismatched and no one else seemed to consider that unfair. Meanwhile, in their daily lives in much of the country, they faced segregation, treatment that at best was degrading and demoralizing — e.g., whites only signs on bathrooms, water fountains, separate accommodation laws (they could work as maids, janitors or even entertainers at hotels and resorts, but they were not permitted to take a room), interactions in which they were addressed using language that intended to demean and limit them, and danger and violence if they objected to their mistreatment. The 1950s was the calm before the storm of the civil rights movement, so those who still hold completely undeserved feelings that they are superior to Blacks look back on it with nostalgia because it was a time when they could still get away with exhibiting an appalling level of racism.

The same was true in the lives of Latinos, who had very limited opportunities, were seen by many only as stereotypes and service workers. Gays and lesbians whose orientation became known to others in the 195s faced humiliation, displacement, abandonment by families and friends, violence and even death. Sadly, these descriptions that summon up awful, cruel and unjust images for most people are remembered with fondness and longing by too many Republicans. Individuals like Ms. Bachmann have never shown concern for anyone who does not look, act and believe exactly as she does — and in the 1950s, she could have done that and not faced criticism. As she does today, she would have deserved criticism for her intolerance, her insensitivity and her dismissive and condescending statements, but her husband would have been able to prevent it for her — and amazingly, that is a world she wants to recreate. In that world White Christian heterosexuals ruled without facing rules. Today, others dare to ask for equal –or at least somewhat better — treatment, something Ms. Bachmann resents because she prefers to ignore the existence of minorities and those who disagree with her andconsiders any sort of mention of them to represent them being rammed down her throat. Her reaction is odd, since her entire career has been devoted to imposing her beliefs on everyone.

I would welcome a chance to tell her that some of my Jewish friends say Merry Christmas to me and their other Christian friends. They are sensiive intelligent people and they understand that for us, the holiday has a dual meaning. But, I do not and would not return the greeting, because doing so would show disregard for their own beliefs. So, I wish them well in another way. Ms. Bachmann and others want Merry Christmas to be the only greeting offered, but not because she believes Christianity is under attack. Quite the opposite, it is because she wants Christians to be on the attack and force others to celebrate as she does. Despite the fact that it shows insensitivity to the beliefs of others, she wants to “shove Merry Christmas down their throats.”

When Republicans feel nostalgic for a better time, they inevitably recall the 1950s, without it ever occurring to them that for an equal number of Americans that era does was not a happy time. Since they continue almost 60 years later to be unconcered about the groups with a different set of memories, it is not surprising that they lived through an era in which so many others were treated abomidably — either by them or in their presence — but, do not remember anything negative. In reality, it was a time when women, after contributing to the victory in WW II, assuming all the family responsibilities, and realizing that they had the ability and potential to do anyhing their dreams imagined had been instead pressured back into their a world in which their ambitions were limited to having and rearing children and keeping house for a husband. It was also a world in which the laws gave husbands control over the lives of their wives, even after marriages had ended.. Blacks, who had helped fight recent wars in disproportionate numbers and who had worked hard (as slaves then in the lowest tier of jobs on the employment scale) to make America a powerful and successful country, nevertheless realized that their abilities and opportunities were mismatched and no one else seemed to consider that unfair. Meanwhile, in their daily lives in much of the country, they faced segregation, treatment that at best was degrading and demoralizing — e.g., whites only signs on bathrooms, water fountains, separate accommodation laws (they could work as maids, janitors or even entertainers at hotels and resorts, but they were not permitted to take a room), interactions in which they were addressed using language that intended to demean and limit them, and danger and violence if they objected to their mistreatment. The 1950s was the calm before the storm of the civil rights movement, so those who still hold completely undeserved feelings that they are superior to Blacks look back on it with nostalgia because it was a time when they could still get away with exhibiting an appalling level of racism.

The same was true in the lives of Latinos, who had very limited opportunities, were seen by many only as stereotypes and service workers. Gays and lesbians whose orientation became known to others in the 195s faced humiliation, displacement, abandonment by families and friends, violence and even death. Sadly, these descriptions that summon up awful, cruel and unjust images for most people are remembered with fondness and longing by too many Republicans. Individuals like Ms. Bachmann have never shown concern for anyone who does not look, act and believe exactly as she does — and in the 1950s, she could have done that and not faced criticism. As she does today, she would have deserved criticism for her intolerance, her insensitivity and her dismissive and condescending statements, but her husband would have been able to prevent it for her — and amazingly, that is a world she wants to recreate. In that world White Christian heterosexuals ruled without facing rules. Today, others dare to ask for equal –or at least somewhat better — treatment, something Ms. Bachmann resents because she prefers to ignore the existence of minorities and those who disagree with her andconsiders any sort of mention of them to represent them being rammed down her throat. Her reaction is odd, since her entire career has been devoted to imposing her beliefs on everyone.

I would welcome a chance to tell her that some of my Jewish friends say Merry Christmas to me and their other Christian friends. They are sensiive intelligent people and they understand that for us, the holiday has a dual meaning. But, I do not and would not return the greeting, because doing so would show disregard for their own beliefs. So, I wish them well in another way. Ms. Bachmann and others want Merry Christmas to be the only greeting offered, but not because she believes Christianity is under attack. Quite the opposite, it is because she wants Christians to be on the attack and force others to celebrate as she does. Despite the fact that it shows insensitivity to the beliefs of others, she wants to “shove Merry Christmas down their throats.”